Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-01-06
25. The National Cigarmakers union with
drew from the Knights of Labor.


AUGUST
16 The cigarmakers Of New York, who
had been on strike fer some time, determined
to resume work
20. Tho eight Chicago Anarchists who were
on trial for the Haymarket riot and bomb
throwing were convicted. Spies, Schwab,
Fielden, Parsons, Fischer, Engel and Lingg
were sentenced to death. Neebe got fifteen
years in prison.
%. Broadway surface road tied up. The
tie up was of short duration.
SEPTEMBER.
4 Three hundred and thirty plumbers
locked out in New York city because of a
difference between them and the bosses over
the apprenticeship rule.
g. Monster parade and demonstration Of
trades unionists and their sympathizers in
New York city.
12. One thousand sailors struck at San
Francisco owing to differences with the ship
ping agents.
16. All the laborers and mechanics of
Charleston, s. c., struck for an increase of
wages, which was denied. The men there
upon resumed work.
p. Four hundred and fifty brownstone
rubbers struck in New York city against the
enpIOyInenI OF q nOn-unlOD man.
OCTOBER.
4. Armours beef men were ordered to quit
work
z. Eight thousand pork packers Of Chicago
struck for eight hours.
Z. The general assembly of the Knights of
Labor organized at Richmond and admitted
the Home club
10. The morocco workers Of Wilmington,
who have been out on strike for seven months,
have returned to work
IL. Lucy Parsons wife of one Of the con-
demned Chicago Anarchists, began series
of addresses in New York and vicinity in be-
half of her husband and his colleagues.
IS. Tse great strike of the Chicago packing
house workmen is at an end, the men having
agreed to return to work on the ten hour plan
20. National assembly of the Knights of
Labor, at Richmond, Va, was adjourned sine
die. Grand Master Workman Powderly's
salary was increased to 5000 from 1,5OO
Other salaries raised accordingly
81. The convention of the National Brother
hood of Engineers, at New York, unani-
mously reelected P. NJ Arthur, of Cleveland,
grand chief eng sineer.
q. The condemned Chicago Anarchists
have beeen granted supersedeas. This oper-
NOVEMBER
!. The striking miners at Shamokin, Pa,
decide to resume work The painters and
paper hangers of HaverhiII, Mass, struck for
nine hours
4. The Paterson molders' strike was ended
by the bosses granting the increase de-
manded.
6. The Augusta, Ga, cotton mill strike is
at an end. The mill owners yield.
6. Twenty thousand Chicago pork packers
again quit work.
q. Three thousand six hundred bottlers, of
the eastern portions of the United States,
struck against proposed reduction of per
cent. in their wages.
2S. The strike of the tanners and curriers'
of Salem and Peabody, Mass, has failed
DECEMBER
Z. Strike in Breeds shoe shops at Lynn,
Mass, 200 persons went out.
IL. The conference of trades unions at Col
unlbus, O., adopt the name of "The American
Confederation of Labor
49, The Brooklyn knights Of Labor object
to the payment of contribution of 81 each
toward purchasing a hall in New York
p. The employees of the Eureka Iron COM
pany, at OxmooT, Ala, quit work on account
of compulsory school tax
23 Several of the Brooklyn surface roads
tied up. Settled same day, after some blood
shed
25. One thousand two hundred dissatisfied
employees at the coal wharves of the Reading
road in Philadelphia, struck. Unless the de-
mands Of the men are granted, q, 900 Knights
of Labor viii go out shortly